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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Dynamically screen certain UR replication based on criteria

requesting the ability of IIDR CDC for z/OS to dynamically screen certain URs from replication, based on criteria such as job name, security identifier, plan name, or a combination of such. in a specific case, we were rotating partitions on a base...
about 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

IIDR Mapping Tables to Teradata target when columns are greater than 30 characters

The error message 'Message3037' Exception Text 'null'. is received when attempting to add a table to a subscription when the target table has a column name with the length greater than 30 characters.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Debug program privileges required for CDC software on Windows servers

We are using IBM Infosphere Data Replication (IIDR/CDC) software for real time data ingest of various SQL Server hosts/dbs into DB2 for LUW environment. In our company, Windows 2019 hosts are NIST compliant and they have several policies put in pl...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Replicate Timezone portion for timestamp with time zone data type

IIDRCDC for PostgreSQL Source is relatively new IBM product that replicates data from PostgreSQL database. In this particular scenario, source is PostgreSQL and target is flat file using IIDRCDC Datastage product. Per IIDRCDC datatype support docu...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Change to memory management algorithm

We use Change Data Capture in several project in our company.We identified a serious problem regarding memory management algorithm. Once a week we have a batch of jobs performing many modifications to replicated tables. This workload is characteri...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CDC Accounts audit

CDC User accounts accessed been collected in Audit trail logs at the moment. But it does not mention which machine is accessing the accounts. This is not helpful to find the users who are unauthorised. We need machine details also to be recorded i...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Make table active on iSeries without data loss

When the user changes the status of a table to active with Mark Table Capture Point in GUI, mark capture point in chcclp or System i command SETMIRSTS (*ACTV), a marker is posted to the journal and all unreplicated transactions between the end poi...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Azure SQLMI Target - Support for "redirect" connection type

IBM CDC replication for Azure SQLMI target currently does not support "redirect" connection type. According to Microsoft documentation, redirect connection type is recommended for Azure SQLMI database connection in order to maintain low latency an...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

Allow ability to remove "Capture point for mirroring"

In our environment we have separate subscriptions for "Refresh" vs "Continuous Mirroring". It can be months between refreshes. We do not want to delete the refresh subscriptions as that increases possibility of losing configurations. We also have ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Export and Import Expressions To Management Console

Currently in Management Console if you want to use Expressions created by a co-worker the only way to utilized the Expression is to get the text from your co-worker and key it in. This is also the case when you first start using Management Console...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration